“I’ve had it pointed out to me by some male journalists that there are no good men in the movie,” Anna Kendrick says of her directorial debut Woman of the Hour. “It is true... I suppose there aren’t any nice guys.”
Men do come off incredibly poorly in this retelling of the haunting true story of the women and girls who encountered serial killer Rodney Alcala in Seventies America. But Kendrick – who stars in the film too – is clear that this is no true crime hagiography that lingers over the twisted genius of a murderer; instead it looks at how society enabled him to kill again and again.
